KC Johnson, who maintains an exhaustive account of the ever-unravelling Duke lacrosse scandal at Durham in Wonderland, has written a provocative post about how some Duke faculty members might be using their course offerings to justify their unsubstantiated--and possibly libelous--conviction that the Duke players, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, really are rapists.

Worth a read--not just for KC's thoughts about how certain women's studies courses look like ideological justifications for bad faith responses to last spring's events, but also for insight into just how shallow some of Duke's women's studies offerings are.

Shallow and "women's studies" in the same sentence. Ummhh, Guess that any non-shallow program would read into strong and self-affirming females in history, let's say Bodicea to Camille Paglia, and then do the logical thing and self-disintegrate. That leaves us with just the shallow ones.